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LIKE TO CALL TO ORDER THE WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH MEETING OF THE NEW ALBANY SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING. AT CALL IT 635. CAN STAFF PLEASE. ROLL CALL. WE CAN. MR. SCHUMACHER HERE. MR. BARNES HERE. MISS GALLO HERE. MR. CONWAY HERE, MISS SCOTT HERE, MR. KOCIAN HERE. MISS KOPPELMAN HERE. MISS HALL AND COUNCIL MEMBER KIS HERE. WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANK
[III. Action of Minutes: April 9, 2025]
YOU. FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE ACTION OF MINUTES FOR APRIL 9TH, 2025 SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING. DO ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE CORRECTIONS TO THE MINUTES? SEEING NONE, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APRIL 9TH MEETING. MINUTES. CAN I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. WHO IS THAT, MR. CONNELLY? THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, MR. SCHUMACHER. YES, MR. CONWAY? YES, MR. BARNES? YES, MISS GALLO? YES, MISS SCOTT. YES, MR. CUSHMAN? YES, MISS. KOPPELMANN. YES.MOTION PASSED. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS TO THE AGENDA FROM STAFF? NOTHING FROM STAFF. GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NOW IS THE TIME FOR HEARING OF VISITORS. FOR ITEMS NOT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK
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TONIGHT? THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING. SEEING NONE, WE'LL MOVE RIGHT ON TO BUSINESS AND I'LL HAND IT OVER TO STAFF. ALL RIGHT. GREAT. SO OUR AGENDA TONIGHT, OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS TO FOLLOW UP ON OUR RAINY EVENING FROM A MONTH AGO WITH ANOTHER RAINY EVENING, BUT WE'RE INDOORS, SO THAT'S ALRIGHT. SO LAST MONTH WE WENT OUT TO THREE SITES. WE KIND OF SCOPED THEM OUT IN TERMS OF LOCATION. MAD SCIENTIST HAS GONE OUT AND FLAGGED THE SITES. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN OUT TO SEE. THEY'RE DEFINITELY VISIBLE ALONG TAYLOR FARM FRONTAGE. IF YOU'VE DRIVEN DOWN DUBLIN-GRANVILLE ROAD, AND THEN WE HAVE THE PLANS TO TALK OVER WITH THE BOARD TONIGHT, SO WE'LL START WITH THAT. THANK YOU. AND I DID A TERRIBLE JOB HOLIDAYS TO PREPARE. DO YOU WANT ME TO GO MAKE MORE COPIES WHILE YOU START? SURE. YEAH, I CAN DO THAT. TWO ROUNDS. OF LISTS IS GOOD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. DO YOU WANT. OKAY. SEE? IT'S ALL WORKING PERFECT NOW. YEAH, WE GOT IT FIGURED OUT. SO MY NAME IS CODY WRIGHT. FOR ME. WE HAVE BEEN ALL THE SITES. I WENT AND MAPPED EVERYTHING, INCLUDING ALL OF THESE FUN LITTLE DOTS, WHICH ARE JUST HAZARDS THAT WE WOULD BE WORKING AROUND AT TAYLOR FARM. IT JUST VARIES FROM LARGE ROCKS, CULVERTS, TREES THAT ARE STILL ALIVE, SOME THAT HAVE STOMPED SPROUTED FROM WHEN IT WAS CLEARED OUT, AND SOME LARGE STUMPS THAT ARE JUST LEFT TO WORK AROUND. THIS IS IT CLEANED UP A LITTLE BIT. THE WHOLE AREA ENDED UP BEING ABOUT 6.3, SO WE'VE GOT EXTRA ACREAGE TO MOVE OVER TO PLANTER'S GROVE FOR THAT RIPARIAN. OH GOT IT. OKAY. THE AREA TO THAT EAST IS PRETTY SMALL. WE COULD KNOCK THIS LITTLE BIT OFF IF NEEDED. IT'S REALLY SKINNY. LOTS OF TREES IN THERE. AND THEN THE WETLAND HERE IN THE MIDDLE WOULD BE GETTING A SEPARATE SEED MIX FOR. THE RESTORATION. THAT WOULD DIFFER FROM THESE GREEN UPLAND TYPE SPECIES THAT WOULD COME THROUGH.IN THE HANDOUT. I THREW IN A FAIRLY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NATIVE SALT TOLERANT SPECIES THAT REMAIN ABOUT FOUR FEET TALL. THERE ARE LIKE 5 OR 6 SPECIES IN THE LIST THAT WOULD REACH. FIVE. I THINK WAS THE TALLEST, MAYBE ONE SIX FOOT, BUT THOSE CAN BE OMITTED. THIS ISN'T A COMPLETE OR A FINAL LIST BY ANY MEANS. AND THEN THE WETLAND MIX WOULD MOSTLY BE TALLER.
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SPECIES WOULD BE IN THAT AREA ANYWAY, SO THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE COMPARABLE IN HEIGHT TO THE CATTAIL, THE INVASIVE CATTAILS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE ANYWAY. PLANTER'S GROVE. WE'VE GOT THESE TWO MIXED HEIGHT MEADOWS AND THOSE RIPARIAN AREAS THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO SEED. WE'D BE PUTTING PLUGS ALSO IN THIS RIPARIAN AREA. THERE ARE A LOT OF DEPRESSIONS THAT STAY KIND OF WET. SO WE WOULD BE THROWING IN SOME ESTABLISHED CLUBS FOR THAT AS WELL. THE OUTSIDE EDGE OF THESE PRAIRIES ARE PROPOSED SHORT MEADOW MIX. NOTHING OVER 4 OR 5FT. AND THEN THESE MIDDLE ONES WOULD BE WHERE WE WOULD THROW THE TALLER SPECIES MIX. AGAIN, IT'S ALL IN THE HANDOUT THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET TOGETHER IN TIME AND. JAMES RIVER PARK. I WENT OUT AND I GOT THIS ONE FLAGGED THIS MORNING. SO IT'S FRESH. IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD. WE HAVE TWO PROPOSED PLACEMENTS OF THIS 100 SQUARE YARD DEMONSTRATION PLOT. THAT'S A LITTLE CLOSER LOOK. I WAS ABLE TO GET IT. DIDN'T HAVE HALF OF THEM ALREADY, BUT WE DID GET ALL OF THE TREES AND THE. SO OPTION ONE IS THE ONE THAT I BELIEVE THE BOARD IS LEANING MORE TOWARDS CENTERING IT ON THAT CURVE. AND THEN OPTION TWO. WAS JUST SHIFTED NORTH A LITTLE BIT. IF WE DO THAT WE GET A LITTLE MORE SUN. SO WE OUR SPECIES COULD BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE TWO. OPTIONS. SO WE WOULD GO WITH SOME SHOWY, MORE SUN LOVING SPECIES FOR THIS OPTION TWO VERSUS PROBABLY GOING WITH STILL SOME SUN, BUT MORE SHADE TOLERANT SPECIES DOWN HERE. IF WE WERE TO LEAVE IT CENTERED ON THAT CURVE OF THE PATH. I HAD PASSED ON THIS PORTION, THIS SITE, TO OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND I HAVE NOT GOTTEN BACK THE COMPREHENSIVE LAID OUT PLAN. I THINK HE'S EMAILING IT TO ME TONIGHT. HE'S ONLY HAD IT FOR A MONTH, SO THAT'S WHAT I HAVE FOR THAT. OUR NEXT STEPS. HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET TO SITE PREPARATIONS REALLY SOON. THE TAYLOR FARM PARK SITE, A LOT OF THE TEASEL AND THISTLE AND THE NON-NATIVE MASSES ARE STARTING TO REALLY POP, AND I WOULD LIKE TO HIT THEM BEFORE THEY HOLD AND START TO FLOWER AND GO TO SEED. SAME WITH JAMES RIVER OR NOT JAMES RIVER, MY BAD. PLAINTIFF'S GROVE. IT'S FAIRLY ALL RIGHT.WHEN I WAS FLAGGING A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, IT WAS JUST A FIELD OF DANDELIONS AND TURFGRASS. SO NOT TOO AWFUL TO WORK AROUND. SO WE'RE NOT REALLY TRYING TO BEAT THE CLOCK ON THAT, SO TO SAY.
BUT FOR JAMES RIVER, THAT FINAL PLAN OUT TO YOU GUYS. TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHERE IF YOU'VE GOT ANY CHANGES. AND THEN WE WOULD BE KILLING THE TURF ON ALL OF THESE SITES, REALLY KILLING THE TURF AND THEN WAITING A MONTH, MONTH AND A HALF TO DO A SPOT TREATMENT. AND THEN FOR JAMES RIVER, SINCE IT'S GOING TO BE A MORE MANICURED FLOWER BED FOR DEMONSTRATION TO HOMEOWNERS, SOME BED EDGING. AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING FOR INSTALL. IT WILL EITHER BE FALL OR SPRING FOR ANY OF THE SEATING. AND WE'RE SHOOTING WITH FOOT PLUGS AND CONTAINER PLANTS IN THIS FALL FOR SURE. TAYLOR'S GROVE WE GET A THIN LAYER OF STRAW TO REDUCE ANY EROSION AND FEED LOT, AND REQUIRED ALL OF THOSE CONTAINERS AND PLUGS TO PUT IN WITH MULCH. JUST MAKE IT LOOK PRETTY. SO WE'LL BE SUBMITTING A MAINTENANCE PLAN THAT IS WAY TO THE FUTURE. THANKS. ALL RIGHT.
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DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THE MAPS OR PLANS THAT WE HAVE IN HAND? ALL RIGHT.YEAH. LET'S GIVE THAT ONE KIND OF WALK. EVERYBODY GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN. YEAH. SO ONE QUESTION ON THAT ONE. I GOT MY ORIENTATION RIGHT. HARLEM ROAD IS TO THE RIGHT AND THAT'S THE COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE RIGHT. DOES IT STOP BEFORE THE THERE'S A CROSSWALK THERE. AND HOW FAR.
RIGHT. OH IT'S RIGHT THERE OKAY. SO THERE'S THIS SECTION OVER HERE. TO THE EAST IS MORE ROAD FRONTAGE. AND IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE IT WAS SEEDED AS PART OF LIKE THE LARGE SEEDING, BUT IT JUST DIDN'T REALLY TAKE. SO I KIND OF JUT THAT OUT. AND THEN IT MEETS BACK UP WITH THE FENCE OVER HERE. YEAH. SO THAT'S THAT ONE PORTION IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE INSIDE THE PARK, BUT IT DOESN'T EXTEND ALL THE WAY TO IT DOESN'T GO ALL THE WAY TO HARLEM. IT GETS VERY, VERY THIN UP THERE. AND THERE'S SOME REALLY GROSS INVASIVE STUFF. YEAH, A BIT OF A GULCH. OKAY.
NUMBER. SO THIS ONE WOULD BE MOSTLY HAND SEEDING FOR SURE BECAUSE IT'S SO SMALL AND THIN, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DRAG THE HEDGEROW TO WHERE YOU SEE THAT A LITTLE BIT IN THIS FIRST SECTION. MAYBE IT GETS THIN HERE BECAUSE I BUMPED IT UP ON TOP OF THE SLOPE, SO I WASN'T TRYING TO LIKE KILL TURF DOWN INTO THE DITCH. AND THEN ALSO THERE'S THE EROSION AND SEED LOSS RISK FOR THAT. SO THIS ALL HERE IS FAIRLY FLAT. AND THEN IT SHIFTS TO HAVING A VERY SHORT HILL HERE.
SO I KEPT IT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SLOPE, WHICH IS FLATTER AS OPPOSED TO TRYING TO GET ANY ESTABLISHMENT ON THAT DITCH SIDE. AND THEN IT KIND OF COMES BACK OUT INTO THIS WETLAND AREA THAT HAS A LITTLE CAPSULE IN IT, AND THEN BACK UP FOR THE REMAINDER OF IT. I WAS CURIOUS, ANGIE. SO YOU'RE PUTTING IT TOGETHER, HAS ANYONE GOT THAT IS IN CHARGE OF MOWING THIS TO TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THAT ALL MAKES SENSE? WHERE THE WHERE IT'S FLAGGED IN TERMS OF WHAT'S THE EASE OF GETTING TO IT BECAUSE I, I GUESS I WAS I KNOW WE TALKED THROUGH SOME OF IT WOULDN'T JUST BE AT THE ANGLE OF THE PLANTING UP TO THE DITCH, BUT I'M JUST I'M CURIOUS HOW THAT MACHINE OPERATES AND IF IT'S ABLE TO. I KNOW IT'S NOT A NORELCO, SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU KNOW, HOW THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THAT IN THERE. AND WE DON'T WANT OBVIOUSLY HAVING SOMEONE FIGHTING NEW PLANTINGS AND MAINTENANCE PLANS AND WE MOW THAT WITH THE MOWER. SO IT HAS THE ARM RIGHT. THAT GOES IN AND WE DO IT ABOUT ONCE A MONTH OUT THERE. NOW IT'LL CHANGE ONCE THIS ONCE THE MAINTENANCE PLAN COMES FORWARD. BUT I THAT'S A SINGLE PLANE. I GUESS WHAT I WAS CONCERNED WHAT I'VE SEEN THOSE. IT'S LIKE A SINGLE PLANE. SO WHEN IT'S TAKING THE DITCH IT'S USUALLY LIKE GOING AT AN ANGLE AND THEN THEY EXPAND IT IN AN ARM TILT. IF YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT. NO I DO, IT'S NEW. THE ARM DOES. THE HEAD OF THE ARM TILTS AND CAN SWIVEL. BUT I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THOUGH. YOU'RE SAYING WE HAVE A WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET THE LINE.
RIGHT. SO IT IT'S DOING THIS, IT'S GOING DOWN AND THEN IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE THIS. SO I'M WHAT I'M GUESSING IS THE MACHINE IS BEST APT TO JUST CUT ON THE SIDE, BECAUSE IF IT HAS TO GO THIS WAY YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOING INTO THE PLANTING. SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. YES. I THINK IT WASN'T A GOOD THING FOR THOSE OF US THAT WERE WELL VERSED IN NORELCO VERSUS TILTS. I THINK WE DO. I THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE MINDFUL OF THAT. NOW THAT YOU SAY THAT, I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. YOU'VE GOT IT FLAGGED WITH WHERE I'LL SEND OUR GUYS TO GO. OKAY. SO YEAH, CHECK IT OUT. OKAY. ARE WE ONCE WE START DOING THE TURF KILL. FROM STAFF, DO WE HAVE SIGNAGE AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL READY TO STICK OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY CLEANERS. GROVE IS GOING TO LOOK REAL BAD. YEAH, WE DO NOT HAVE IT READY, BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED IT. I WOULD PROBABLY JUST USE SOME YARD SIGN TYPE. YEAH, SEE WHAT WE CAN PUT.
YOU KNOW, NATIVE PLANTING IN PROGRESS. MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A QR CODE BACK TO THE WEB PAGE. YEAH, BUT I DEFINITELY THINK AND FOR QUESTIONS WE'LL PUT A PHONE NUMBER ON THERE BECAUSE WE WILL GET SOME SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. YEAH. AND THIS ONE'S GOING TO TAKE AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. CORRECT. THEY ALL WILL LOOK LIKE CRAP FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. OKAY. WE DO HAVE
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A KIND OF A TEMPLATE OR JUST A SIGN THAT WE CREATED FOR A FORMER PROJECT AT THE COLUMBUS ZOO THAT WE COULD SEND ALONG. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC IDEA. YEAH. AS THE SIGN. YEAH.AND WE CAN GET YARD SIGNS MADE REALLY QUICKLY. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEAH. OF COURSE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT TAYLOR FARM OR COMMENTS? I REALLY LIKE YOUR FLOWER SELECTIONS. THESE ARE GOING TO BE AMAZING. I TRIED TO MAKE IT AS DIVERSE AS POSSIBLE. MOST OF OUR SEED, WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND SOURCE FROM OHIO PRAIRIE NURSERY. SO IT'S LOCAL GENOTYPE NATIVE NATIVE TO THE STATE. BUT ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO REACH OUT AND GET LIKE A REALLY RANDOM ONE OFF KIND OF MORE RARE SPECIES, PRAIRIE MOON OUT OF MINNESOTA DOES HAVE A LOT OF OHIO NATIVE STUFF. IT MAY NOT BE GENOTYPE, EGO TYPE, WHATEVER, BUT IT'S MADE UP OF THE STATE AND IT'S NATIVE TO THE AREA. IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR ME. THESE PRAIRIE MOON HAVE GOOD PRODUCTS. I REALLY LIKE HOW YOU PUT THE BLOOM TIMES ON HERE TOO. KIND OF HELPS ME PICTURE LIKE WHAT'S GOING TO BE COMING UP WHEN AND ALL THAT STUFF. SO I LIKE A NICE LOOK. DO WE HAVE PICTURES OF LIKE A RENDERING OF WHAT YOU'RE HOPING THIS WILL LOOK LIKE, OR LIKE SOME SORT OF IMAGE THAT WE COULD KIND OF INCLUDE IN WHATEVER THE QR CODE IS LINKING TO. SO PEOPLE, WHEN THEY'RE SEEING THE UGLY BURNS ON, THEY CAN CLICK ON THIS AND SEE, LIKE IT WILL LOOK BEAUTIFUL LIKE THIS, OR IT WILL HAVE SOME FLOWERS LIKE THIS JUST SO THEY CAN SEE. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT THE END RESULT IS. HOPEFUL TO LOOK LIKE. I DON'T HAVE A RENDERING, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY ADD SOME PICTURES FOR SURE. BEAUTIFUL SAND TO WHEREVER. VISUAL COULD HELP PEOPLE KIND OF LIVE WITH THE UGLY FOR A LITTLE BIT. YEAH.
OKAY. BUMP THE PLANTERS GROWTH, PLEASE. FOR THIS ONE. I HAVE ONE MOTOR LENGTH AWAY FROM THE PAVED PATH FOR THE ENTIRE LENGTH WHEN I WAS FLAGGING. IT DOESN'T REALLY SHOW UP GREAT ON A MAP LIKE THIS, BUT ON THE GROUND YOU SEE THAT IT'S ONE TIRES WIDTH OF THE MOWER AWAY FROM THE OUTER EDGE. IT'S LIKE 4.5FT FROM THE PATH. SO THIS OUTER EDGE WOULD, IF IT DID, DECIDE TO POP OVER A LITTLE BIT ON THE EDGE HERE, IT WOULD BARELY GET INTO THE. I SAID, ADRIAN, THAT WENT OUT AND I'D SEEN SOMEONE ELSE HAD SEEN THIS FLAGGED. YEAH, I MEAN IT'S ALREADY MOWED THAT WAY. SO IT'S ACTUALLY A GREAT PERSON. IT'S GROWN UP ENOUGH. I'M LIKE, OH, WELL DONE. HERE, TAKE THAT OFF THE LIST. GROWING DANDELIONS. SO YEAH, IT'S A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THAT IS. YOU SEE IF IT CREPT A LITTLE BIT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A HUGE DEAL. I MY COMMENT ON THIS WAS I THOUGHT AND AGAIN, SOMETIMES THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL MEETING WITH MYSELF. I THOUGHT WE LIKED THE IDEA OF COMING A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN OFF THAT HILL. AND SO IT THE KIND OF IRREGULAR SHAPE THAT'S TOWARD THAT, THAT AREA THERE, I THOUGHT, WE THOUGHT, TALKED ABOUT SKINNING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT, ESPECIALLY ON THE, THE LARGER PORTION. SO LET ME SEE IF MY POINTER WORKS. SO COMING DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE ALONG THE LINE OF THAT HILLSIDE. YEAH. SO THAT THAT STAYS MORE GRASS AND ESTABLISHED. BECAUSE WHAT I GUESS WHAT I FEAR A LITTLE BIT IS SOMEBODY PLAYING BALL UP ON THAT HILL AND I KEEP ON HILL, BUT IT'S PLATEAUED OUT. AND IF YOU KICK THE BALL INTO IT, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT PEOPLE WANDERING INTO POTENTIALLY TICK AREAS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH TO RUN AFTER THAT. SO I JUST THOUGHT HAVING A LITTLE BIT MORE, A LITTLE LESS SPACE DEDICATED TO THAT MIGHT HELP ERADICATE SOME OF THAT FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT I PRESENTED, THE VERY FIRST IDEA, IT KIND OF WENT UP IN HERE EVEN EVEN FURTHER. GOT IT. SO I TRIED TO IT'S DEFINITELY LIKE THE SLOPE, LIKE THE TOP OF THE SLOPE OVER HERE. AND IT'S FAIRLY FLAT, LIKE WAY DOWN INTO HERE. SO TO GET THE ACRE, I TRIED TO KEEP IT BUMPED UP A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY TAKE IT TO JUST THE TOP OF THE SLOPE AND MAKE IT A SKINNY SWATH THROUGH THERE IF NEED BE. LIKE AT ITS AT ITS WIDEST. WHAT IS THAT AGAIN? I CAN VISUALIZE IT BECAUSE I SAW IT, BUT I'M HORRIBLE AT THROWING A FROM LIKE 40FT. 50FT FROM YEAH, EDGE TO EDGE, THAT SPOT.
SO THESE I THINK THIS OUTSIDE BUFFER HERE WAS FIVE YARDS. SO IT'S PRETTY WIDE PRETTY BIG. SO
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30 YARDS MAYBE A LEISURE TRAIL PATH IS EIGHT FEET. SO JUST LOOK AT IT. AND THAT RIGHT OF WAY THERE IS PROBABLY LIKE 26FT MAYBE. OR THE PAVEMENT OF THE ROAD. SO YOU MIGHT BE LOOKING AT YOU'RE PUSHING MY MATH ESTIMATIONS FOR SEVENTH GRADERS. IT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS.COME ON, GIVE ME AN ESTIMATE. THE FLAGS. IT'S DEFINITELY BIGGER THAN WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN WE WERE OUT THERE A MONTH AGO. YEAH. AND WE HAVE TO REMEMBER WHEN THESE PLANTS GROW OPTIMALLY, THEY'RE BIG. THEY'RE GOING TO BE 4 TO 5FT. IT'S GOING TO BE DENSE. SO GOOD LUCK IN THE SOCCER BALL IN THERE I MEAN TRULY IT WILL BE DENSE. AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. I MEAN YOU MIGHT HAVE AN OCCASIONAL DEER RUN THROUGH IT OR SOMETHING, BUT I THINK FOR THE MOST PART IT'S GOING TO BE MORE SOLID THAN PEOPLE REALIZE. I THINK, YEAH, IT SHOULD BE FAIRLY IMPENETRABLE. YEAH. FOR LIKE A SOCCER BALL OR SOMETHING, IT SHOULD BOUNCE RIGHT AT THE EDGE. BUT THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF ESTABLISHMENT, I'M SURE PEOPLE WOULD BE TRACKING THROUGH THERE IF THEY NEED TO RETRIEVE SOMETHING. I COULD DEFINITELY JUMP. DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THAT? DO YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT NECESSARY? I DON'T THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL. I THINK, OKAY, YOU KNOW, WE SAW THAT AND I THINK IT YOU HAVE TO KIND OF WORK WITH THE SLOPE OF THE LAND AND WHAT MAKES SENSE WITH THE FLAT. I MEAN, IT'S GOING TO DO WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO, TOO. I MEAN, YOU CAN SET UP. YEAH, RIGHT. THOSE FLOWERS ARE GOING TO BE THERE PRETTY BIG. AND THEY'RE PRETTY POWERFUL. I WHEN I WAS OUT THERE FLAGGING, I TRIED TO RIDE THE RIDGE LIKE YOU TALKED ABOUT. AND YOU DEFINITELY GOT THAT OVER HERE. BUT IT WAS IT'S SO THIN DOWN HERE. IT WOULD IT WOULD CUT OFF LIKE A QUARTER OF AN ACRE. ALMOST GOT IT. OKAY. SO YOU WERE SAYING TAYLOR FARM WAS A LITTLE LESS THAN WE HAD ORIGINALLY PROPOSED? WERE YOU SUGGESTING WE ADD ON TO THIS ONE OR TO THE JAMES RIVER? THAT WAS THE ADDITION OVER HERE. YEAH. AND SO THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE WETLAND. AND OF THIS BARELY MAKES UP FOR THE. SHORTCOMINGS OF TAYLOR FARM. SO WE COULD EVEN EXTEND THIS MORE. THERE'S A BIG DEAD TREE HERE. AND I KIND OF JUST KEPT IT FROM THIS STREAM CROSSING AND KIND OF WRAP IT AROUND THAT BIG DEAD TREE. BUT WE CAN TAKE IT FURTHER OUT AS WELL. KEEP IT GOING. AND WE'RE WE ADDING SOME AREA AT JAMES RIVER AS WELL. WE HADN'T DISCUSSED THAT, BUT WE COULD. WE COULD TAKE IT AND DO BOTH. LIKE JUST THE WHOLE THE WHOLE HORSESHOE. THE WHOLE. WELL, ON THIS ONE. AND AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE THAT I KIND OF GET THIS TIME OF THE DAY, THE MEETING KIND OF SPLIT IN A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT, SMALLER GROUPS. WE DIDN'T PULL THAT TOGETHER. BUT ORIGINALLY WHEN YOU GUYS HAD CONSULTED THIS, IT WAS LIKE A CIRCLE ALMOST AT THE END OF THAT WALK. RIGHT. AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT ADDING THE OUTSIDE PORTION. THAT WOULD HELP KIND OF, YOU KNOW, GIVE US THAT WALKWAY POINT OF VIEW. AND THEN THIS FEELS LIKE NOW WE'VE GOT TWO BEDS AS OPPOSED TO KIND OF A DOMINANT THING WITH AN EDGING TO IT.
WOULD YOU WANT TO MAKE THIS MORE OF AN OVAL FEATURE THAN THE THIS LINEAR PIECE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE WALKWAY? I WOULD, BUT I GUESS I WANT TO THROW IT AS A QUESTION TO YOU GUYS BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT SOME FEATURES OF THIS AREA HAVING MAYBE AND AGAIN, I'M NOT MARRIED TO A ROCK FEATURE OR, YOU KNOW, SOME DEPRESSION WATER FEATURE, BUT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THINGS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO HAVE IN THEIR HOME TO MAKE IT FEEL A LITTLE MORE, YOU KNOW. YEAH.
CONSIDERED. SO I LIKE THAT IDEA BECAUSE ON THE GROUND WHEN I WAS ON THERE THIS MORNING, THIS SECTION LOOKS REALLY WEIRD BECAUSE IT CURVES AWAY FROM YOU. YEAH, I WOULD, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF EXPANDING THIS TO LIKE A MORE OVAL CIRCLE DOWN IN THIS AREA AND KEEP THIS OUTER, BECAUSE THIS IS ONLY TWO WIDTHS WIDE. SO ABOUT NINE FEET, TEN FEET ISH, WHICH IS STILL FAIRLY BIG, RIGHT? YEAH. RIGHT. BUT I DO LIKE THE IDEA THAT GIVES YOU BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK THROUGH IT, I WAS THINKING THAT IT'S GOING TO FEEL LIKE A BORDER PIECE. YEAH. AND THEN THE GARDEN ON THE INTERIOR PART WAS GOING TO FEEL A LITTLE LARGER. AND WE DID TALK ABOUT ADDING THE ROCKS AND A LITTLE MORE LIKE AN ELEMENT OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN THE YARD TO, TO GIVE PEOPLE AN IDEA.
YEAH. DON'T FORGET THE DOG WASTE BINS THERE. I THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO SEE IF THEY COULDN'T GET AWAY FROM IT BY KEEPING THAT SHADE SPOT. I'M SORRY. UNLESS IT WAS THIS MORNING, THEY WERE OKA.
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THEY'RE PUTTING DOWN SOMETHING. OKAY? OKAY, I LIKE THAT. THERE ARE THE TWO TREES. THEY DON'T REALLY SHOW UP IN THIS. THEY ARE INCORPORATED INTO THIS SECTION. AND THEN, LIKE THE DOG, THE THINGS OVER THERE, I DO FEEL LIKE ONE BENEFIT TO KEEPING LIKE THE GREENER THE GREEN SECTION THAT EXTENDS NORTH IS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE MORE VISIBILITY FROM THE SIDEWALK OR PEOPLE DRIVING PAST TO ACTUALLY NOTICE, LIKE IF THEY HAVEN'T READ ABOUT IT OR CLICKED ON A LINK OR SOMETHING.YEAH, I FEEL LIKE THOSE RED SECTIONS ARE NOT VERY VISIBLE FROM THE SIDEWALK UNLESS YOU'RE LIKE ALREADY IN THERE, RIGHT? AND KNOW TO GO IN THERE. AND THE INSIDE WOULD DEFINITELY GIVE YOU ANOTHER APPLICATION IN A YARD LIKE SO. THERE'S A MORE LIKE A LINEAR THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE NEAR YOUR FOUNDATION OR NEAR A WALKWAY, BUT THEN THE OVAL OR WHATEVER THAT IS SHAPE THAT ENDS UP BEING COULD BE MORE LIKE A BED THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. RIGHT? AND IT WOULD BE. IT'S INTERESTING TO EXTEND IT BECAUSE YOU'RE WHAT YOU PLANT IN THE SUN ISN'T NECESSARILY WHAT YOU PLANT IN THE SHADE. RIGHT. AND WITH PEOPLE WITH HOMEOWNERS. RIGHT. DEPENDING ON, YOU KNOW, THE DIRECTIONS OF OUR HOME AND THAT TYPE OF THING, THAT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER TOO. AND I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT TIME THIS PICTURE IS TAKEN, BUT I MEAN, I THINK WHEN WE WERE THERE, IT'S LIKE JUST BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE AREA, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET FULL SOUTH TO WEST SUN EVEN WHERE THE SHADED AREA IS. BUT IT DOES GET KIND OF SOUTHWESTERLY WESTERN EXPOSURE BY THE TIME THE IT'S GETTING OVER THERE IN HIGH SUMMER. SO JUST SHADOW CASTING I THINK IS A LITTLE DECEIVING FROM THAT STANDPOINT. IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A SHADE GARDEN NECESSARILY. NO, BUT THE FOREST IS STILL THERE. I MEAN LIKE IT'S IT IS WHAT IT IS, DIRECTIONALITY WISE. IT'S ALL I'M SAYING. I THINK IT'S GOOD TO, FOR PEOPLE TO SEE JUST DIFFERENT OPTIONS. I DON'T REMEMBER ANY SUN CHARLES. THERE IS NO SUN. OKAY. WE'RE GONNA PUT A RAIN GARDEN IN THE RAIN GARDEN. NEXT WEEK. COME ON.
WE'LL SEE YOU GUYS. THEY KEEP SAYING. SO. WE ON BOARD WITH GROWING THE OVAL ON THE INTERIOR. YEAH. AND IS THAT IN ADDITION TO THE ELONGATED. OUTSIDE? CASEY, WE WOULD LIKE IT ALL. YEAH. THANK YOU. ALL HAPPEN. JUST BRING OUT THIS ENTIRE MIDDLE AND IT'S RIGHT.
OKAY. WE'RE UP TO WE DO THE ONE IN FRONT SO YOU COULD SEE IT FROM THE ROAD. BUT WE CAN, LIKE, SHORE UP THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND THE PROPOSALS AND JUST BASED ON THIS DIRECTION KIND OF WHAT WE'VE TAKEN, WHAT WE'VE ADDED BASED ON THIS DIRECTION. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. DO YOU MIND GOING BACK TO PLANTERS FOR A SECOND? AND, ANGIE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS WORTH ASKING BECAUSE THIS IS MOWED BY ROCKY FORK, RIGHT? WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE AREA THAT'S JUST BELOW THE BLUE SHADED, THAT'S KIND OF A RIPARIAN AREA. AND THAT IS WHEN WE WERE THERE THAT DAY. IT'S BOGGY AS ALL GET UP. SO I'M WONDERING IF IT ACTUALLY IS A BENEFIT JUST TO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THAT MOWED BECAUSE IT'S A PAIN IN THE TO KEEP GRASS GROWING AND MAINTAINING THEIR KIND OF GET ALL THE TREES AND THE LOGS OUT OF THERE, CLEAN IT UP, AND SOME BENCHES OVER THERE. OKAY, IN THAT SPOT ALONG THE WATER BY THE BRIDGE. OH, YEAH. YEAH, IN THE EASTERN SIDE WHERE THE TRAIL IS OF THE STREAM. EITHER OR WE'RE GOING TO AND YOU KNOW, THE LOG JAM IS PRETTY ROUGH OVER THERE RIGHT NOW. YEAH. I DO THINK THERE IS A TO MAKE IT MORE LIKE RIPARIAN PLANTINGS. AND YEAH, MAYBE IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE MOWED. THEN ONCE THAT'S ESTABLISHED BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY WET. RIGHT. THAT'S THAT THAT I SHOULDN'T SAY IT DOESN'T SAY BOGGING THE SUMMER, BUT IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH OF THAT TO GET CREDIT IN. AGAIN, I DON'T THINK IT'S PLAYING BALL OR HAVING A PICNIC IN THAT SPOT. SO. AND THOSE WERE THOSE PLANTINGS IN THE BLUE SECTION ON THAT LIST AS WELL? YES. OKAY. IT WOULD BE IN THE RIGHT, LIKE THE MARSH MARIGOLD AND THE AND THE FLOODPLAIN. REALLY BEAUTIFUL. I REALLY LIKE THAT WATER AREA. REALLY? MORE LIKE A VISUAL.
YEAH. AND A LOT OF THOSE RIPARIAN SEEMS TO BE GOING TO BE TALLER. SO I WAS TRYING DENOTED ON THERE THAT WE BUY THE PACKETS TO MORE SELECTIVELY PLACE WHERE THOSE SPECIES WOULD HOPEFULLY
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STAY. AND THOSE TOWARDS THE WOODS MORE. SO THAT I'M HEARING, LET'S NOT EXTEND IT, JUST LET'S SEE HOW THIS GOES. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. AND WE CAN SHORE UP ALL THE, THE AREAS OKAY. GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT EITHER PLANTERS GROVE OR. THE OTHER JAMES RIVER. THE OTHER GREAT.ANY OTHER GENERAL QUESTIONS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I, I WOULD. WE HAD TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT COMMUNICATION WITH RESIDENTS AND WE WERE GOING WE'LL PUT THIS ON ANOTHER AGENDA. BUT THE SIGNAGE I THINK IS IMPORTANT EARLIER THE BETTER. WE ALSO CAN DO A MAILING TO PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THESE AREAS AND OFFER LIKE AN OPEN HOUSE, LIKE 4 TO 6 ONE DAY IN HERE. AND JUST IF PEOPLE WANT TO COME IN AND HAVE ASK QUESTIONS, IS THAT SOMETHING YOU THINK WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA? YEAH. I MEAN, I WAS ALMOST LIKE WHEN WE HAVE ZONING NOTIFICATIONS, IT'S LIKE 200FT. YOU KNOW, THE PERIMETER. I DON'T KNOW IF WE DO SOMETHING SIMILAR WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE NOTIFY ANY RESIDENT THAT'S WITHIN 200FT OR WE EVEN GO A LITTLE BIT BIGGER NET WITH THIS AND EITHER HAVE AN IN PERSON OR DO THE QR CODE THAT MAKES IT BACK AND SEE IF FOLKS HAVE QUESTIONS. HOW MANY, HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD WE BE TALKING ABOUT HERE? OH, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MAPS. I MEAN, 200FT YOU'RE FIRM WOULD BE ZERO. YEAH, YEAH. WE'RE NOT GONNA GET ANYONE THERE. JAMES RIVER IS PROBABLY ONLY A COUPLE HOUSES. PLANTER'S GROVE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE TOO MANY WITHIN 200FT. JUST THE FOLKS ON THERE. YEAH. YOU'RE GOING TO GET ANYONE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO IT THAT'S GOING TO SEE IT ON A DAILY BASIS. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD. WE ALSO COULD ADVERTISE IT IF WE DIDN'T GIVE PEOPLE A DIRECT POSTCARD AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS HAPPENING ACROSS THE STREET FROM YOU, BUT WE COULD PUT IT ON OUR CONNECTS, EMAIL THE OPEN HOUSE AND JUST SAY, THIS IS A PROJECT THE CITY IS DOING. IF ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY IS INTERESTED, THEY COULD COME AS WELL. WE DID THAT WHEN WE REDID THE WINDSOR PLAYGROUND. WE DIDN'T GET A GREAT TURNOUT, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT DID COME, I THINK THEY, YOU KNOW, REALLY APPRECIATED THE FACT THAT THEY HAD AN AVENUE TO GET INFORMATION FROM THE CITY.
AND THEN WE ALSO WILL DEFINITELY HAVE INFORMATION ONLINE THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE. DON'T HATE ME FOR ASKING, BUT COULD WE DO A SITE MEETING ON SITE? POTENTIALLY? I MEAN, IT'S NICE BECAUSE JAMES RIVER HAS THE COVERING. WE HAVE TO TAKE A TAKE A TENT OUT FOR THE OTHER, BUT PEOPLE MIGHT BE MORE INCLINED TO STOP BY, RIGHT? WE COULD GET A NICE NIGHT, GET SOME SUN. I WAS WAITING, MAYBE NEXT WEEK. YEAH. LET US THINK THROUGH THAT. I MEAN, WE DO YOU WANT TO DO ONE APPLICATION? THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING. BECAUSE IT'S LIKE IT FEELS A LITTLE MORE NEIGHBORLY.
AND. YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S EASIER TO POINT OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING. AND OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T SLIDE PROJECTION, BUT IT SOUNDS I MEAN, EVEN TO HAVE SOME OF THESE HANDOUT KIND OF THINGS AND HAVING A REPRESENTATION OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE APPROXIMATED, I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, YEAH, NO THROWING IT OUT. YEAH. WE COULD DIVIDE AND CONQUER LIKE DO THEM ON THE SAME NIGHT. AND SOME OF US GO THERE AND SOME OF US GO THERE AND JUST BE AVAILABLE. THE RISK IS IF IT'S IT STARTS STORMING AT FIVE, NO ONE'S GOING TO SHOW UP. BUT THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN COME OUT OF THEIR HOUSE TO COME HERE. RIGHT. IT'S RAINING ANYWAYS. BUT YEAH, THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE COULD FIGURE OUT WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER. ALSO, WITH THIS GREAT LIST OF PLANTS HAVING SOME VISUALS OF WHAT THE PLANTS WOULD LOOK LIKE OR YEAH, JUST SOME IMAGES TO KIND OF SAY, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT THIS IS WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SOMETHING SIMILAR THAT YOU PLANTED MAYBE TO GIVE THEM THAT, I THINK BEFORE YOU SHOWED US SOME THINGS. AND THAT JUST GETS PEOPLE LIKE THINKING THAT IT WON'T LOOK LIKE THAT AT FIRST. YEAH, BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY LOOK LIKE THAT. YEAH. ACTUALLY HAVING LIVE PLANTS THERE. EXACTLY. OH. MAYBE EVEN. YEAH.
OH, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. YEAH. WHAT'S YOUR TIMING FOR? ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO START ON SITE SOON AS POSSIBLE. OKAY. I'M ALL FOR MEETINGS. YEAH, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. LET US THINK THROUGH SOME
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LOGISTICS AND WE'LL ADVANCE THAT BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SEASON AND WEATHER AND EVERYTHING. OKAY? I SEEM TO HAVE A GIFT FOR KILLING GRASS. SO IF YOU WANT ME TO BE INVOLVED IN THE FIRST PROCESS, I CAN DEFINITELY HELP OUT. JUST GIVE ME A DROP SPREADER. AND SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING. IF WE NEED TO ACT FAST AND WE CAN FIGURE IT OUT, WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND DO AND LIKE SCHEDULE AND INFORM EVERYONE WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND THEN WE'LL GET THE YARD SIGNS READY TO. ANY NUMBER OF BOARD MEMBERS WILL HELP SUPPORT THAT. OKAY. IT WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE THOSE. AND THEN IN A FUTURE AGENDA WE'RE GOING TO PUT ON LIKE THE PERMANENT SIGNAGE, WHAT WE WANT TO LIKE, WHAT MESSAGE IS, WHAT DO WE WANT TO SAY, WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE. WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE SOME TIME FOR THAT, BUT IT'D BE GOOD TO GET THINKING ABOUT THAT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. ALL RIGHT. SURE. YOU READY FOR TO MOVE ON? OKAY. THAT'S GOOD.OKAY. MOVING ON, MOVING ON. SO THOSE ARE OUR THREE LOCATIONS. INVASIVE TRADE IN PROGRAM. WE'VE GOT THE GREEN LIGHT TO UP OUR INCENTIVE TO $500 WHICH IS GREAT. WE HAD TWO APPLICANTS BEFORE WE INCREASED THE AMOUNT. BUT SOIL AND WATER HELD BECAUSE THEY KNEW WE WERE THINKING ABOUT THAT. SO THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET A BENEFIT OF THE INCREASED AMOUNT. ONE ON CENTRAL COLLEGE TOOK OUT TWO BIG HONEYSUCKLE, REPLACED WITH CANADIAN HEMLOCK. ONE ON PERSONS PASSED LOTS IN WINDSOR. ACTUALLY TOOK OUT FOR BURNING BUSH AND INSTALLED SMOOTH HYDRANGEA IN THEIR PLACE.
SO I THINK IT'S GOOD WE ALREADY HAD TWO BEFORE WE EVEN HIT LAST YEAR'S TOTAL. RIGHT? WE'RE DONE.
THAT'S SUCCESS. I AM POISED TO 500 IS A GOOD I MEAN IT SEEMS LIKE A NOTICEABLE NUMBER WHERE YOU'RE LIKE OH YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S LIKE A REAL INCENTIVE. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. WELL IT'S FUNNY I DIDN'T SHARE THIS WITH YOU YESTERDAY, BUT I WENT JUST TO, WE PLANTED LIKE A COUPLE BEDS FOR MY WIFE FOR MOTHER'S DAY, AT LEAST ONE OF MY KIDS AND JUST GOT LANTANA AND A COUPLE OTHER THINGS LIKE NOT A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF AND 400 AND SOMETHING DOLLARS. SO, I MEAN, WE KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO AGONIZE OVER HOW MUCH MONEY TO SPEND WITH $500. IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT IN PLANNING MATERIALS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR TO SPEND THAT MONEY. SO HOPEFULLY IT'S GOING TO BE AN INCENTIVE WE ARE HOLDING. WE WERE WAITING TO HEAR THE FINAL OUTCOME BEFORE WE RELEASED A VIDEO. SO THEY JUST HAVE TO ADD IN DUB IN THE NEW AMOUNT AND THAT WILL BE RELEASED I THINK BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. AND I THINK SOME OTHER COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT IT. SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT. SOIL AND WATER DID SAY I DON'T KNOW WHICH COMMUNITIES, BUT SOME COMMUNITIES WERE ALREADY WHEN I LOOKED ON THEIR WEBSITE LAST. WE'RE KIND OF OUT OF THEIR FUNDS FOR THIS YEAR. SO THEIR PROGRAMS WERE ON HOLD UNTIL IT WHETHER THEY ADDED ADDITIONAL FUNDING TOWARDS IT. SO MAYBE THE OVERALL OUTREACH SOIL AND WATER DID ABOUT A MONTH AGO, LIKE MAYBE THAT WILL CREATE SOME MORE INTEREST AS WELL. ANYONE THAT MENTIONED I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS OR NOT, BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR REPLACEMENT PLANTS, WE HAVE A COUPLE PLACES THERE'S NOT. THEY'RE NOT IN NEW ALBANY, BUT THEY'RE ADJACENT TO NEW ALBANY AND ONE IS LEAVES FOR A WILDLIFE. PATTI SHIPLEY OUT ON 605 SUNBURY, NOT FAR AWAY. SHE NOT ONLY WILL GIVE YOU, SHE WILL. SHE'LL TEACH YOU ABOUT THE PLANTS YOU'RE PLANTING BUT WHAT SPECIES IT SUSTAINS. SO WHAT? CATERPILLARS, WHAT BIRDS THAT MIGHT ATTRACT OR WHAT DOES WELL TOGETHER. SO IT'S NOT JUST A NURSERY WHERE YOU'RE GOING IN AND BUYING SOMETHING PRETTY, YOU'RE GOING IN AND BUYING IT BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY HAS ECOLOGICAL BENEFIT AND POLLINATOR PATHWAY. IT'S SORT OF MAYBE LIKE A KEYSTONE PLANT OR SHRUB OR TREE. THE OTHER THING IS MONARCH MEADOWS AND LYND FRUIT FARM. THEY DO AN INCREDIBLE JOB ALSO EDUCATING YOU, NOT JUST SELLING YOU A PLANT, BUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR PLANTING IS, A LIVING THING AND WHAT IT SUSTAINS. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO AS SUSTAINABILITY, THINK ABOUT. WE'RE NOT JUST PUTTING IN SOMETHING BECAUSE THIS IS WE WANT TO PUT SOMETHING IN BECAUSE IT'S BETTER THAN A PEAR TREE. WE WANT TO ACTUALLY HAVE PEOPLE PUTTING THINGS IN WITH INTENTION AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS NOT JUST BENEFITING US AND THE BEAUTY OF THE AREA, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE SUSTAINABLE. IT'S GOING TO DO BETTER BECAUSE IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE A NATIVE AND IT'S GOING TO SUSTAIN A LOT OF OTHER THINGS, AND IT WILL INCREASE OUR BIRD POPULATION AND BIODIVERSITY OVERALL. SO IT HELPS EVERYTHING. SO THOSE ARE JUST TWO REALLY GOOD. IF PEOPLE ANYONE CALLS THE CITY AND ASKS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY I MEAN OAKLAND'S GREAT. I GET STUFF AT OAKLAND TOO BUT LEAVES FOR WILDLIFE AND MONARCH MEADOWS ARE TWO REALLY NOT TOO FAR AWAY AND THEY DO A REALLY NICE JOB. THAT
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WAS LEAVES LEAVES FOR WILDLIFE. OKAY, WELL, I THINK THAT'S LIKE THE CONTENT OF WHATEVER PERMANENT SIGNAGE THAT WE HAVE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION IN IT AS WELL. I PASSED A PIECE OF LITERATURE I HAD TO ALONG TO STAFF TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT. IT'S THE WAS THE GROUP. IT'S ON THE VERY FRONT. OHIO INVASIVE PLANTS COUNCIL. YEAH. OH YEAH. IT'S THAT'S A LITTLE INFO ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE REPLACING A WIRE REPLACING IT AND THINGS TO REPLACE IT WITH. IT DOESN'T GET INTO ALL THAT DETAIL, BUT IT'S MAYBE A JUMPING OFF POINT. AND I LEARNED I WAS GOING TO PULL UP MY BURNING BUSH. AND THEN I WAS EDUCATED THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO NATIVE BURNING BUSHES THAT WE ACTUALLY CAN'T HAVE. AND THEN I ALSO LEARNED, YOU KNOW, LIKE WITH HONEYSUCKLE, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPE OF SPECIES OF HONEYSUCKLE, AND WE'RE PULLING OUT CERTAIN VERSIONS, BUT WE WANT PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE EDUCATED ENOUGH KNOWING WHAT THEY'RE REPLACING SO THEY DON'T PULL OUT SOMETHING THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S ALREADY NATIVE AND PUTTING IT, YOU KNOW, WASTING THEIR MONEY AND TIME. SO THOSE ARE JUST IT'S A LOT OF EDUCATION AND. WELCOME TO BOTANY 101. SO I DID WANT TO PASS ON THE BOARD'S APPRECIATION TO COUNCIL FOR STEPPING UP TO DO THAT. I KNOW THAT WAS. YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. I WILL SAY THAT IT WAS NOT EASY. THERE WERE SOME HESITANT FOLKS.SO YES, I HOPE SUCCESS. AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD TEST TO SEE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I DO THINK THE PROGRAM NEEDED A LITTLE CATALYST TO GET IT MOVING. SO HOPEFULLY WE PUT THIS OUT THERE AND PEOPLE BECOME AWARE OF IT. AND. HOPEFULLY WE SPEND ALL OUR MONEY. YEAH. WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT IS NICE KNOWING THAT OTHER MUNICIPALITIES HAVE THROWN IN A STOP BLOCK? SO I MEAN, IF FOR SOME REASON WE GOT 20 PEOPLE AND PANIC ENSUED, WE COULD CERTAINLY MODIFY AND MAKE THAT LANGUAGE AND CUT IT OFF. THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. SO YEAH, I WON'T BE RUNNING AMUCK. GREAT. SO HOPEFULLY YEAH, WE'LL KEEP TRACK OF THAT AND REPORT WHAT WE LEARN BACK TO THE BOARD AS THE YEAR PROGRESSES. OUR LAST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS A FEW UPDATES RELATED TO EARTH DAY TO ARBOR DAY. SO WE KICKED OFF THE WEEK WITH OUR GREEN GUARDIANS TRAINING. SO OUR GREEN GUARDIANS IS OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM. WE'RE STARTING STARTING OUT WITH, YOU KNOW, FOOD WASTE COMPOSTING AT SPECIAL EVENTS. BUT, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE SUCCESS WE HAVE AND WHAT THIS BOARD'S DESIRE IS, I THINK WE COULD DO A LOT MORE ONCE WE ESTABLISH A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS AND WE HAVE A CONSISTENT WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. WE HAVE BRANDING, WE HAVE T-SHIRTS, WE HAVE ALL THAT STUFF. I THINK WE'RE LAYING THE GROUNDWORK TO DO POSSIBLY SOME FUN DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE FUTURE. SO 17 PEOPLE ATTENDED, WHICH IS A GOOD NUMBER. 15 OF THOSE PEOPLE FILLED OUT THE VOLUNTEER APPLICATION. SO THAT'S AN ONLINE APPLICATION THROUGH GISTICS IS OUR VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE THAT WE JUST GOT THIS YEAR. AND THEN OF THOSE 15, SO YOU SIGN UP TO BE A VOLUNTEER AND THEN YOU CAN GO IN AND CHOOSE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES. AND SO THERE'S DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THROUGHOUT THE CITY. BUT THE BEING A GREEN GUARDIAN AT LIKE OUR SUMMER CONCERTS AT OUR SUMMER EVENTS IS AN OPTION. SO FOUR PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED UP TO WORK SHIFTS AT EVENTS. SO I THINK THAT'S GREAT. AND WE'LL JUST KEEP GOING AND HOPEFULLY GROWING THAT. OUR COMMS TEAM IS PROMOTING THAT INTERMITTENTLY. YOU KNOW THEY'VE LAUNCHED IT, BUT THEY'RE DOING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AND OTHER THINGS AS CONTENT SPACE ALLOWS. AND I WILL SAY WE BOUGHT SOME NEW BINS FOR THE SPECIAL EVENTS FOR THE GREEN GUARDIANS TO USE. WE WERE AT A.
A SUSTAINABILITY EVENT AT OSU, AND THEY HAD SOME BINS THERE THAT WERE BRANDED REALLY WELL.
THEY SEEMED TO BE A GOOD HEIGHT. THEY KIND OF SAID WHAT YOU PUT WHERE. SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE EASIER TO HELP DIRECT PEOPLE. THEY'RE COLORFUL. SO WE WERE ABLE TO BRAND THEM LIKE A NEW ALBANY BRAND. AND SO WE'LL BE THERE ON WHEELS, SO THEY'LL BE EASY TO KIND OF MOVE AROUND THE AMPHITHEATER. SO THAT WILL BE AN IMPROVEMENT, I THINK, OVER LAST YEAR AS WELL. SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET GET MORE VOLUNTEERS AND GET PEOPLE TO BE AT AT LEAST EVERY EVENT. I THINK WE'VE OPENED UP EACH EVENT FOR LIKE 2 TO 4 SPACES FOR VOLUNTEERS, BUT IF WE HAD 1 OR 2 AT EACH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE ESPECIALLY FOR LIKE A SUMMER CONCERT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. HAS THIS BEEN SHARED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB AT THE HIGH SCHOOL? I DON'T THINK IT HAS SPECIFICALLY BEEN SHARED. I KNOW WE SHARED IT JUST WITH THE I FORGET THE PERSON WHO MANAGES LIKE, YEAH, I KNOW PATRICK GALLOWAY PUT IT ON ONE OF THE I SAW IT ON AT LEAST ONE COMMUNICATION CAME FROM THE
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SCHOOL. I THINK IT IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S COMING FROM THE SCHOOL AND LIKE A QUARTERLY BASIS OR SOMETHING, MAYBE THEN WE CAN, YOU KNOW, MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF IT AND JUST, YOU KNOW, EMPHASIZE THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU EARN COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS AND THAT KIND OF STUFF. SO YEAH, I CAN HELP WITH THAT. ONE OF YOU GUYS. YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT. I COULD SEND YOU LIKE A GRAPHIC AND INFORMATION BY EMAIL. AND IF YOU WANT TO SEND IT OUT, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A CERTAIN CONTACT WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB OR NOT. WELL, MY DAUGHTER IS THE PRESIDENT, SO. WELL, I THINK FOR NOW, BUT YEAH, BUT I CAN PROMOTE THAT TOO. OKAY, GREAT. CAN WE SHARE IT WITH THE COMMUNITY GARDEN PEOPLE TOO? THROUGH GENCO. OH, YEAH. MAYBE GET THAT GROUP GOING. YEAH, WE'LL DO THAT. SO THAT'S HOW WE STARTED OUR WEEK. AND THEN ON FRIDAY WE HAD THE ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING OVER AT ROSE RUN, PLANTED 350 TREES IN TOTAL. I DON'T KNOW IF, PETE, IF YOU WANT TO. I THINK IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. YEAH, SPECIAL THANKS TO ANGIE. SHE REALLY DID A GREAT JOB. I THINK IT WAS. I WAS ONLY THERE FOR PART OF THE DAY, BUT YEAH, IT SEEMED REALLY SMOOTH AND I GOT REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THE TEACHERS. I THINK THEY REALLY ENJOY THAT ROSE AROUND I THINK IS, YOU KNOW, WE DID IT AT RUSH PARK. WE'VE DONE SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND IT'S REALLY CLOSE AND EASY TO ACCESS TO THE SCHOOLS. NOT THAT WE WANT TO DO THAT EVERY YEAR. I GUESS WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES. BUT IF YOU HAVE OTHER THOUGHTS ON PLACES, YOU KNOW, THE BIG THING IS CAN WE GET THERE IN 15 MINUTES OR LESS WALKING AND PLAN FOR HALF AN HOUR, SAY, AND COME BACK. SO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE THINK ABOUT PLACES THAT ARE EVEN ON THE SCHOOL CAMPUS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR IF THAT'S EVEN POSSIBLE, LIKE RIGHT ON 161 THERE ON THE EAST SIDE OF SWICKARD WOODS, THERE'S A LOT OF PEAR AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO IF WE DID SOME REMOVAL, MAYBE PLANTING THERE, JUST BRAINSTORMING. BUT YEAH, THANKS.THAT WAS THAT WAS REALLY GOOD EVENT. IT WAS FUN. THE KIDS REALLY ENJOYED IT. YEAH. I THINK ONE THING I NOTICED ABOUT. SO I VOLUNTEER SOMETIMES ON THE FRIDAY MORNINGS WITH THE HEALTHY NEW ALBANY, LIKE THE TODDLER NATURE PROGRAMS. AND THEY HAD ONE LIKE A CLASS THAT PEOPLE PAY FOR THROUGH HEALTHY NEW ALBANY THAT MORNING. AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A NEAT OPPORTUNITY, I THINK, FOR THESE LITTLE KIDS WHO ARE LIKE 18 MONTHS TO FOUR, MAYBE TO HAVE HAD SOME KIND OF OPPORTUNITY. LIKE IT ALSO WAS HAPPENING AT ROSE RUN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE TREE PLANTING.
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A NEAT LITTLE, I DON'T KNOW, PREVIEW ACTIVITY FOR THEM, I THINK.
YEAH, JUST ON THE PATHWAY BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY ALSO INTO NATURE AND SUSTAINABILITY.
AND IT WAS A SIMILAR TOPIC. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NEAT TO KIND OF TIE THAT IN SOMEHOW. I KNOW BEFORE WHEN MARY LOU WOULD COME BEFORE THE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, SHE DID GIVE LIKE, LIKE SAPLINGS TO ALL OF THE TODDLERS AND THAT TYPE OF THING TOO. SO THEY HAVE DONE THAT. BUT IT WAS PROBABLY THREE YEARS AGO. OKAY. THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. THEY REALLY LOVED IT. YEAH. THE LITTLE KIDS EXCITED ABOUT HELPING PLANT A TREE WHEN THEY'RE THREE, YOU KNOW. YEAH. STARTING. DO WE HAVE A FORESTER YET? WE'RE STILL WE DO HAVE A FOREST. YEAH. THAT'S EXCITING. WILL KING HE JOINED US ON MONDAY. OH THAT'S AMAZING. YES. GREAT. I'M IN. I'LL INTRODUCE HIM SOON. YEAH. NICE. THAT'S GREAT. NICE. AND HE'S FROM ANN ARBOR, RIGHT? CORRECT. YEAH. OH, YEAH. SO GREAT. GREAT COMPANY.
YEP. YEAH. WELL, WE CAN THINK THROUGH MAYBE PARTNERSHIPS OR OFFERS WITH HEALTHY NEW ALBANY IF THERE IS A WAY TO GET SAPLINGS FOR ONE OF THEIR PROGRAMS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR NEXT YEAR'S DAY. YEAH. AND THEN THE BIG DAY SATURDAY. SO LOTS TO TALK ABOUT. I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT YOU ALL HAVE TO SAY. WE MOLLY AND I HAD FUN. I TALKED TO ALL 1200 OF THOSE CARS THAT WALKED. I STILL THINK THAT NUMBER'S LOW. I THINK IT IS. I THINK THERE ARE MORE THAN 1200.
I FELT LIKE A LOT MORE THAN 1200 CARS. SO THAT NUMBER IS BASED ON A SUBSCRIPTION. WE HAVE TO SOMETHING CALLED PLACER.AI, WHICH IS LIKE YOU CAN GEOFENCE LOCATIONS AND THEN THEIR DATA COMES FROM CELL PHONE DATA, BUT THEN IT IS AN EXTRAPOLATION AS WELL. SO IT'S NOT LIKE 1 TO 1.
SO ESSENTIALLY LIKE WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD AN APP AND THEY'RE ASKED, YOU'RE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO ALLOW TRACKING OR WHATEVER. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE WORDS ARE. I ALWAYS SAY NO USUALLY.
BUT THEN IF THEY HAVE PARTNERS WITH THOSE APPS AND SO THEY POOL INFORMATION THAT WAY AND THEN EXTRAPOLATE IT. SO I KNOW I THINK, LAURA, YOU COUNTED LIKE 500 CARS THE FIRST HOUR MAYBE.
YEAH. SO I THINK THAT'S OUR RANGE. RIGHT. WE DIDN'T DEFINITELY DIDN'T SLOW DOWN FROM THE FIRST HOUR. SO. BUT AT LEAST THOSE ARE OUR TWO INFORMATION SOURCES THAT WE HAVE. SO PLACER.AI PUTS IT AT 1200 CARS. THAT'S UP FROM 400 CARS IN 2024. WE SHUT IT. THIS HAS HAD TO SHUT
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IT DOWN. I'M PROUD THAT WE SHUT IT DOWN, THAT WE LASTED UNTIL NOON, ACTUALLY. AND WE DID TURN PEOPLE AWAY AT NOON. I, I PERSONALLY THINK THAT COULDN'T HAVE GONE ANY SMOOTHER THAN IT DID WITH OUR OFFICER SHOWING UP. HE HE AND I YEAH, HE HELPED A LOT. AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T OUT THERE, BUT HE SHUT DOWN THE INTERSECTION OF BILHEIMER AND WALNUT AT ABOUT QUARTER TILL NOON AND STARTED REROUTING CARS. NOW SOME OF THEM GOT LIKE CREATIVE, RIGHT AND WENT TO THE FRONT OF THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT AND SAID, THE OFFICER TOLD ME TO COME HERE. WELL, NO, HE DIDN'T, OR SOME FOUND THEIR WAY ALL AROUND AND TRIED TO GET IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. REALLY WANTED TO RECYCLE THAT DAY. THEY WAITED LONG FOR IT, SO THEY REALLY DESERVED TO BE ABLE TO RECYCLE. SO HE DID THAT. THAT ESSENTIALLY ALLOWED WHATEVER WAS BETWEEN BILHEIMER AND THE ENTRANCE DRIVE TO GET AT LEAST ON SITE RIGHT AROUND NOON. AND THEN WE PULLED BARRICADES. SO I WAS OUT THERE. I THINK WE CLOCKED IT. ONCE YOU GOT ON THE PROPERTY, IT WAS ABOUT AN HOUR TO GET OFF THE PROPERTY IS HOW LONG IT WAS TAKING. IT'S CRAZY. SO YEAH, SO WE WERE LIKE AT NOON WE GOT A AND IT WAS, IT WAS ABOUT 1:00 WHEN THE LAST CAR CAME THROUGH.LET'S TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WHAT WAS TAKING THE LONGEST. DO YOU THINK IT WAS THE HAZARDOUS WASTE. WASTE? YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. IS THERE A WAY. THERE'S JUST NO WAY TO MAKE THAT GO. I MEAN, THEY HAD A LOT OF STAFF. IT SEEMED LIKE THEY. AND PETE BECAUSE I WAS LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE. SO WE KIND OF HAD DIRECT SIGHT OF THAT WHOLE OPERATION. THEY PROBABLY HAD 15 PEOPLE AND THEY WERE BUZZING. I MEAN, THEY WERE WORKING. SO THAT'S I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY JUST STAFFED MORE, BUT I MEAN, FOLKS WOULD PULL UP AN ENTIRE, LIKE, PICKUP BED FULL OF PAINT. AND IT'S JUST LIKE IT WAS JUST I THINK A TRAILER PULLED UP AT ONE POINT THAT WAS JUST COMPLETELY LOADED, LIKE WITH BARREL. BARREL WITH BARRELS. YEAH, LIKE MAYBE NOT RESIDENTIAL KIND OF THING. OH IT WAS. YEAH. SO I, I DO THINK WE COULD DO A SCRUB ONCE WE GET THEIR NUMBERS BACK AND KIND OF REEVALUATE. AND I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO TOUCH ON THE ADVERTISING PART. MAYBE WE DON'T DO AS GOOD A JOB NEXT YEAR. YEAH. WHOEVER WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE OF THAT. YOU KNOW THE TWO GOOD JOBS, THE PLACE WHERE I THAT DATA CAN TELL YOU WHERE THE FOLKS CAME FROM, RIGHT. YEAH. SO I'LL WE'LL GO HERE AND THEN I'LL GO BACK. SO THE FROM A PERCENTAGE BASIS IN 2025. SO 45.7% CAME FROM FOUR 354. SO THAT'S THE SMALLEST GEOGRAPHIC AREA WE CAN GET THROUGH ZIP CODES THROUGH PLACE OR I. AND YOU SAID ALMOST 50% 45. YEAH. SO AND THEN WE ALSO CAN GO BACK IN TIME. SO WE LOOKED AT IT FROM 2024. AND WE HAD 30% COME FROM 4354 AND 2024. SO THAT THAT SURPRISED ME BECAUSE I FIGURED THERE WAS MORE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE IMMEDIATE AREA THEN OUR NEXT LIKE THREE BIGGEST ZIP CODES WERE 43230, WHICH IS. PARTS OF GAHANNA. SO THAT'S HERE. THAT WAS 6.8%. PATASKALA WAS 6.4, AND THEN WESTERVILLE WAS 6.2, WHICH I, I IN MY MIND I THOUGHT MORE WOULD HAVE BEEN COMING FROM WESTERVILLE. I DON'T KNOW WHY. YEAH. AND THEN IT GOES THROUGH LIKE TO BLACKLICK. THERE'S ANOTHER WESTERVILLE ZIP CODE, MOUNT LIBERTY. JOHNSTOWN WAS 2.8%, SUNBURY WAS 2.4. JUST IT'S PRETTY SMALL. ONCE YOU GET BEYOND THAT, I THINK SUPER INTERESTING TO ME THAT THERE WAS ALMOST HALF FROM 4354, WHICH IS ENCOURAGING. BUT I YOU KNOW, I WAS EXPECTING YOU TO SAY, OH, LIKE 15% WERE FROM NEW ALBANY. AND, YOU KNOW, THEN IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING? RIGHT? EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, GLOBALLY, IT DOES HELP EVERYTHING. BUT THIS YOU KNOW, WE'RE NEW ALBANY BOARD. SO I WANT TO FOCUS ON NEW ALBANY RESIDENTS. BUT YEAH THAT'S A GOOD NUMBER 50%, ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO LAST YEAR BEING. YEAH. SO THE NUMBER WE DON'T HAVE HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD WASTE NUMBERS YET. AND I THINK IT TOOK THEM A LITTLE BIT LONGER LAST YEAR THAN IT DID THE E-WASTE. SO E-WASTE. THIS
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SHOCKED ME TOO. SO WE DID. YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE NUMBERS FROM OUR FIRST YEAR. WE FELT LIKE WE DID A LOT. BUT I, I LOOK BACK AT SOME PICTURES WHILE I WAS YOU GUYS REMEMBER WE HAD SOME PICTURES AND I REMEMBER AT THE TIME THINKING LIKE, LOOK AT ALL THIS STUFF WE COLLECTED. YEAH.SO IN 2023, THE FIRST YEAR WE GOT NUMBERS, WE DID 10,500, 2024 TRENDED DOWN A LITTLE BIT. WHICH KIND OF MAKES SENSE IF YOU GET RID OF A BUNCH OF STUFF IN THE YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT REPLACING IT WITH AS MUCH STUFF TO GET RID OF. BUT I REMEMBER THINKING 2024 FELT PRETTY STEADY. ANDREW AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT. IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS DEAD. MAYBE AT LIKE 1130 IT GOT SPARSE. AND THEN THIS YEAR WE DID ALMOST 21,000. SO WE LIKE TRIPLED THAT NUMBER, WHICH IS UNBELIEVABLE.
THAT'S WILD. AND I DIDN'T EVEN FEEL LIKE MORE UNLESS PEOPLE HAD HAZARDOUS HOUSEHOLD WASTE AND E-WASTE. YOU WERE ON THAT SIDE CASEY. SO HOW MANY PEOPLE DROVE THROUGH VERSUS STOPPING FOR YOU? DID MOST PEOPLE STOP? IT WAS ABOUT 5050. OKAY. OF FOLKS THAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT HAD DROPPED E-WASTE AND THEN STILL HAD OR HAD DROPPED HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS AND THEN STILL HAD DROPPED? YEAH, I'D SAY ABOUT 5050. OKAY. I THINK THE VAST YOU KNOW, I THINK THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE FOLKS CAME IN WITH HAZARDOUS WASTE. LIKE THEY HAVE LIKE THE TRIFECTA. VERY FEW CAME THROUGH AND JUST WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH WITH US. YES. THERE WERE OBVIOUSLY THERE WERE A PERCENTAGE, BUT THE AND THAT WAS THE LOOP WAS THE ONE THAT. YEAH. THAT'S WHERE SLOWED IT DOWN.
YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. SO YEAH I, I AM REALLY I SHARED WITH ADRIAN I'M REALLY A LITTLE NERVOUS. AND BECAUSE I, I KNOW WE HAVE A BUDGET AND WHAT WE BUDGETED YOU KNOW WE WE'RE STILL WAITING TO GET THIS NUMBER BACK. SO ON THAT TOPIC, ONE THOUGHT I GUESS FOR A COUPLE THINGS. ONE, TO IMPROVE THE EXPERIENCE. IF PEOPLE ARE WAITING AN HOUR, I MEAN THERE'S CLEARLY DEMAND AND RIGHT. SO I'VE SEEN EVENTS PLANNED WHERE EVEN IF THERE'S NO COST, IT'S JUST A TICKET. THERE'S A WAY, RIGHT? THERE'S A COUPLE WEBSITES THAT DO IT, BUT THERE'S NO COST TO DOING IT. BUT IT MAY BE A WAY TO JUST HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT DEMAND TO EXPECT. AND THAT WAY PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP AND WE TURN THEM AWAY. RIGHT? RIGHT. AND THAT'S A GREAT THOUGHT FOR NEXT YEAR. NOW THAT WE KIND OF SEE WHERE WE'RE AT, AND MAYBE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE CAN PROMOTE THE SWACO DROP OFF.
THAT'S OPEN YEAR ROUND. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL EARTH DAY, THE ARBOR DAY. YEAH, WE DO HAVE A OUR COMMS TEAM HAS WORKED ON BECAUSE WE, WE WERE SUPER INTERESTED AS WELL. LIKE HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. WHAT WAS THE DRAW? I'VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS AND BOOSTING AND STUFF OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO THEY HAVE THE DATA THAT THEY CAN PULL FROM FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM. A LOT OF THIS WAS LIKE JUST, OH, SHOOT, THE WORD JUST ESCAPED ME. WHAT DO THEY CALL IT? THE WORD. IT'S JUST LIKE PEOPLE SHARING THINGS. IT'S LIKE NATURAL, RIGHT. AND THEN ORGANIC OR IT'S A DIFFERENT WORD. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WORD. I THINK WE WENT VIRAL. WE WENT I THINK THERE WAS SOME SORT OF VIRAL ORGANIC VIRUS. YEAH, IT WAS ORGANIC. PEOPLE SAW IT AND SHARED IT, AND THEN THEIR FRIENDS SAW IT AND SHARED IT. YEAH, VERY LITTLE OF WHAT THEY SAW FROM THE ANALYTICS WAS BECAUSE SOMETHING WAS BOOSTED. SO WE DID WE SPONSOR THIS POST LIKE WAS IT A PAID OR DID WE JUST PUT IT ON. WE JUST KIND OF PUT IT. YEAH. SO THEY WERE LIKE SO THEY CRAFTED A STATEMENT THAT WE CAN RELEASE. AND IT ALSO IS JUST KIND OF IT ALSO REMINDS PEOPLE OF THESE OTHER OPTIONS THEY HAVE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO DROP OFF AT THESE DIFFERENT AREAS. AND I THINK I THINK ALSO IT'S IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS A REALLY POSITIVE THING, THAT PEOPLE WOULD WAIT SO LONG AND TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO GET RID OF THESE ITEMS AND NOT JUST CHUCK THEM IN THE TRASH OR WHEREVER, WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT DO WITH THEM. SO I ALSO DON'T WANT THAT TO BE LOST. SO I THINK THE TONE OF THIS, I WON'T READ IT OUT LOUD TO YOU, I CAN SEND IT TO YOU, BUT I THINK IT IS VERY POSITIVE AND ENCOURAGING. I WANT TO ECHO THA.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE FOLKS THAT LITERALLY LIKE AN HOUR AND A HALF LIKE US THAT CAME THROUGH. AND I THINK OUT OF THE WHATEVER WE I THINK IT WAS NORTH OF 2000, NORTH OF THE, THE NUMBER THAT WE HAVE. BUT I THINK WE HAD TWO, TWO CARS THAT I REMEMBER THAT WERE LIKE UPSET.
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YEAH. ALL THE OTHER ONES BECAUSE THEY, THEY WITNESSED EVERYBODY BUSTING THEIR BUTT AND, YOU KNOW, WORKING HARD, YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW, THEY JUST WERE STILL AFTER AN HOUR AND A HALF LIKE WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS DOING THIS. YOU KNOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE. YEAH. SO IT WAS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE DESPITE THE CHALLENGES. YEAH. SO AND I KNOW I WENT THANK OBVIOUSLY THE SAB MEMBERS THAT WERE THERE AND ANGIE'S STAFF LIKE OF THE SERVICE AND STEVE AND THE WHOLE TEAM UP THERE LIKE LIKE I SAID LIKE THIS WAS I, I LITERALLY TOLD MY WIFE I WAS LIKE, I'M GOING TO GO OFF, I'LL WORK A COUPLE HOURS. I'LL, YOU KNOW, I'LL BE BACK FOR BREAKFAST. YEAH. AND THEN I GOT BACK AT 130. RIGHT. AND SO IT WAS ALL HANDS ON DECK. AND YOUR TEAM CRUSHED IT. AND LIKE I SAID, IT WAS NOT LOST ON THE FOLKS COMING THROUGH. HOW HOW EVERYBODY WAS DOING THEIR UTMOST TO MAKE IT MAKE IT FLOW. SO YEAH, TO YOUR POINT, ADRIAN, I DON'T WANT TO BE LOST. YOU KNOW, WE HAD THIS THING AND YOU KNOW EVERYBODY. IT WAS GRIDLOCK. AND THANK GOD IT WASN'T MARKET CENTERED. THE ENTIRE CITY, THE ENTIRE DONE THAT. LIKE, I MEAN, I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH. I'M LIKE, OH MY GOD, MARKET STREET WOULD BE A DISASTER. THERE'S NO. SO I MEAN, I THINK WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD DO.WE PULLED ALL THE LEVERS ON THAT DAY TO MAKE IT FLOW AS GOOD AS WE CAN. IT WAS JUST THERE WERE JUST SO MANY CARS. YEAH. AND BUT YEAH. LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR. I DO THINK MAYBE A SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE. IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE YOU HAVE A TIME OR SPREAD OUT OR I'M NOT SURE THE SOLUTION, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO DIG INTO THAT. IT'S LIKE A DISNEY FAST PASS OR SOMETHING.
THERE WERE FAST PASSES WHEN YOU SAW THE PEOPLE WALKING BACKWARDS UP THE ROAD CARRYING, YOU KNOW, CANS OF PAINT. OH MY GOD. LIKE WE HAD A WOMAN WHO SAID THAT SHE HAD PEOPLE KNOCKING ON HER CAR WINDOW BECAUSE THEY HAD TO LEAVE. AND I ONLY HAVE A BAG OF BATTERIES. SO SHE HAD LIKE ALL THIS STUFF THAT WASN'T HERS THAT PEOPLE WERE PUTTING IN HER. THAT'S. YEAH. YEAH. TSA WOULD NOT APPROVE. NO, NO. HAS THIS BEEN IN YOUR POSSESSION THE WHOLE TIME? MA'AM, THESE ARE YOUR BATTERIES. I DO THINK, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE FIRST YEAR WHEN WE WERE COMPLETELY HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EXPECT, WE WERE AT MARKET SQUARE. WE WERE DIRECTING TRAFFIC. WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TRAILERS LIKE THAT. WE DEFINITELY HAD LESSONS LEARNED OF WHAT TO DO DIFFERENTLY. BUT I AGREE WITH YOU FROM A LOGISTIC AND LAYOUT STANDPOINT, THE FLOW OF THAT WORKS REALLY WELL. BUT I THINK IF THERE ARE TIME SLOTS OR TICKETS OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE DO, WE LOOK AT DOING PAPER SHREDDING ANOTHER TIME DURING THE YEAR BECAUSE THAT'S THE LEAST. LIKE THAT'S PRETTY SMALL.
I YEAH, I THOUGHT I HONESTLY BECAUSE I WAS THE FIRST YEAR FOR IT, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GET KILLED IN PAPER SHREDDING. EVERYBODY JUST ROLL UP AND, YOU KNOW, UNLOAD THEIR CARS. AND I THOUGHT THAT ONE TRUCK WAS GOING TO BE FULL IN THE FIRST HOUR. YEAH. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SHARED LIKE LITERALLY THE LAST PERSON TO DROP OFF PAPER, THEY SHREDDED IT AND THE TRUCK WAS FULL, LIKE THE LAST PERSON. IT LIKE THE TRUCK COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY MORE FULL. AND IT WAS ONE PERFECT TRUCK. SO THAT WAS ACTUALLY SMOOTHER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD GO. YEAH. SO YEAH, I THINK THAT HAZARDOUS WASTE IS THE ONE THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT. YEAH. AND WE, CHELSEA AND I ARE GOING TO REACH OUT TO SWACO AS WELL AND SAY, HEY, WE'VE DONE THIS A FEW TIMES NOW. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED THIS LAST TIME. IT SURPASSED OUR EXPECTATIONS, YOU KNOW. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED THIS BEFORE AND JUST GET ANY THOUGHTS OR IDEAS FROM THEM ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO? BUT AS SOON AS WE GET THAT NUMBER, I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT IT IS. IT'S PRETTY BIG THAT $500 INVASIVE SPECIES MIGHT GO DOWN $0.50, RIGHT? HERE'S A BAG OF SEED, CHARLES. AND THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE THE RECORD OF CREATING THE BIGGEST TRAFFIC JAM. AND. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. DID IT. WAS THERE A LOT OF TRAFFIC TOO FOR LIKE SATURDAY EVERYWHERE LIKE. OH RIGHT. AND THE PEOPLE THAT CAME IN FOR A SOCCER GAME OR A BASEBALL GAME, THEY GOT IN THIS LINE AND DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY WERE GOING. YEAH. SPECIAL LIKE THAT WAS ROUGH. YEAH GOD BLESS GOD BLESS YOU. ON THE ON THE CUSTOMER SIDE LIKE THE FRONT END BECAUSE YOU WERE THE ONES DOING WELL. YOU KNOW WE TRIED REALLY HARD TO THANK EVERYONE. YEAH PERSONALLY AND SAY THANK YOU FOR TAKING THIS TIME. I KNOW
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IT'S TAKING A LITTLE BIT LONGER. AND WE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE ANDREW AND I WERE BASICALLY LIKE SAYING, HERE'S HOW THIS IS WORKING. THEY HAVE TO SORT EVERYTHING THAT'S HAZARDOUS. I THINK SOMETHING WE NEED TO CONSIDER IN OFFERING THE GRATITUDE TO PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS. AS ONE GUY GOES, I COULD JUST TAKE MY BATTERIES HOME AND THROW THEM IN THE TRASH. I SAID, YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD DO THAT, BUT YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 40 MINUTES. JUST FINISH IT IF YOU WANT AND DO IT THE RIGHT THING. AND HE'S LIKE, FINE, THAT'S FINE. BUT WHAT I THINK WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IS TO. LET'S BUY LESS. LET'S START THINKING ABOUT DIFFERENT WAYS OF USING UP THINGS CREATIVELY, INSTEAD OF DUMPING SO MUCH STUFF THAT REALLY DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE, IT JUST GOES BACK TO OUR PLANET. I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE A COMPONENT OF THAT AT SOME POINT, LIKE, IT'S GREAT THAT WE'RE PAYING THIS AND WE'RE DOING THIS, BUT IT'S LIKE A DEBBIE DOWNER. I'M SORRY, BUT IT'S TRUE, RIGHT? LIKE I REALLY BELIEVE THAT. I THINK, YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THOSE THINGS ON FACEBOOK WHERE SOMEONE HAS SOMETHING FREE TO SHOP IN A HOUSE AND PICK IT UP LIKE THAT. I THINK WE NEED TO DO MORE OF THAT ENCOURAGING OF REUSING ALONG WITH THE RECYCLING. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I THINK WE NEED TO BE MORE AS A SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE. I THINK THAT'S KIND OF OUR JOB TO NOW WE HAVE ALL THESE NUMBERS AND WE'RE YEAH, WE DID IT. I'M SO GLAD PEOPLE DID THE RIGHT THING. BUT ALSO AT THE SAME THING. LET'S THINK ABOUT WHAT WE PURCHASE. WHERE DOES IT GO? HOW COULD SOMEONE ELSE MAY BENEFIT FROM IT. RIGHT. LIKE YEAH, I MEAN MAYBE EVEN THE COLOR BLUE THAT YOU WANT TO GIVE AWAY IN PAINT, LIKE MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE WANTS THAT. THAT'S TRUE. YEAH. SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING. I'M JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. I REALLY THOUGHT THE E-WASTE PART WOULD DWINDLE AS THIS WENT ON, BECAUSE EVERYBODY JUST KIND OF CLEANED THEIR STUFF OUT. AND ALL I'VE NOTICED IS THE TVS HAVE GOTTEN LIGHTER, LIKE, THERE'S AS MANY TVS. THEY'RE JUST REMARKABLY LIGHTER NOW. IT'S LIKE, OH, THERE'S A 70 INCHER. I GOT THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT WEIGHS 8 POUNDS. THEY'RE NOT.THE FIRST YEAR WAS A DISASTER. IT WAS CRT TVS AND. YEAH, EVERYBODY GRABBED THE WRONG HAND. THEY'RE LIKE, OH YEAH. SO THERE'S AS MANY TVS JUST THEY'RE LIGHTER. TWO TRAILERS FULL OF TVS. THE THOSE CARDBOARD THINGS ARE CALLED GAYLORDS. SO I THINK WE USE 17 GAYLORDS LAST YEAR. WE 33 THIS YEAR. RIGHT. AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WERE GOING TO THE HAZARDOUS WASTE, LIKE I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THE E-WASTE WAS THREE TIMES WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR. BUT SO WHEN THAT NUMBER CAME IN, I WAS SURPRISED. BUT IF THEY WERE IN FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE, THEY WERE GOING AROUND THE BACK. SO WE DIDN'T SEE THAT UP IN THE FRONT. YEAH. RIGHT. YEAH. SO GOOD EVENT. YES. SO AT SOME POINT IS THERE GOING TO BE A POST WITH THAT STATEMENT. YEAH.
OKAY. OR THAT'S THE FULL STATEMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE BREAKING IT UP INTO SMALLER BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE POSTED ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EVENT YET. WE HAVE NOT YET. OKAY. WE WERE TRYING TO GET A GRASP OF THE MESSAGE AND THE NUMBERS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. OKAY. SO I'LL FIND OUT WHAT THEIR PLAN IS FOR THAT. OKAY. AND THEN SO OUR LAST THING WAS OUR NATURE EXPLORATION DAY. WE HELD THAT ON MAY 1ST. IT WAS A THURSDAY AT TAYLOR FARM PARK. SURPRISE. IT WAS RAINING SO BUT I WAS SURPRISED. I DON'T KNOW. A LOT OF YOUNG FAMILIES STILL CAME OUT FOR IT. SO IT WAS A FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT PRESENTED BY US, COSI AND THE SCHOOLS. WE HAD FARM ANIMALS AND A PETTING ZOO. THEY THEY HAD THE BIGGEST BUNNY I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. I DON'T KNOW, MOLLY.
DID YOU GO OVER AND SEE? I DID NOT GET TO SEE IT, I FELT BAD, YES THEY WERE. THE PETTING ZOO WAS REALLY GREAT. BUT TWO OF THE FARMER'S DAUGHTERS WORK AND THEY KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE ANIMALS AND WHO WHAT ANIMALS WERE FRIENDS WITH OTHER ANIMALS. SO IT WAS REALLY CUTE. COMPOST WARM. STATION. BIG THANKS TO MOLLY. SHE WAS A BIG HIT WITH THE KIDS, THE WORMS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. WE HAD HEALTHY NEW ALBANY THERE TO HELP KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES PLANT SEEDS, AND THE COMMUNITY GARDENS TALKED ABOUT WITH PEOPLE ABOUT NATIVE PLANTS. AND THEN WE HAD A NATURE SCAVENGER HUNT. SO OVER 50 KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES ATTENDED, WHICH WAS GREAT. THESE BOYS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE OUT AT TAYLOR LAST MONTH AND BY THE PARKING LOT, THERE'S A LITTLE WETLAND AREA, MOLLY HAD POINTED IT OUT WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE, THEY I MEAN, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN IN THERE FOR 15 MINUTES. AND THE MOM WAS JUST LOOKING AT THEM, AND IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE SHE HAD I HOPE SHE HAD A TOWEL IN THE CAR BECAUSE THEY WERE ROLLING AROUND. THEY HAD A
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GOOD TIME. YEAH. SO IT WAS FUN. I THINK PART OF ME ACTUALLY WAS GRATEFUL FOR THE RAIN BECAUSE IF IT WAS NICE OUT, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HANDLE THE PARKING SITUATION. IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY SITUATION. SO 50 PEOPLE CAME OUT IN THE RAIN. I THINK FROM TALKING TO PEOPLE. THE PETTING ZOO WAS A BIG DRAW FOR YOUNG FAMILIES, SO I DON'T KNOW. PETE. MOLLY IF YOU HAVE. YEAH. I MEAN, I DO THINK IF IT WAS A NICE NIGHT, I THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY AN AMAZING TURNOUT. I DO I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DO ABOUT PARKING. I MEAN, I GUESS YOU CAN PARK IN THE CHURCH DOWN THE STREET THERE WHERE YOU HAD TO, BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT IS A LOT OF YOUNGER FAMILIES. THAT'S KIND OF A LONG WALK FOR THEM. SO BUT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE, I GUESS. I THINK I THINK YOU GUYS DID A GREAT JOB PLANNING IT. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS IT WAS REALLY NICE EVENT. PLEASE KEEP THAT POND. PLEASE ADD ROCKS. IT COULD BE A THING.IT'S OUR MUD POND. MUD POND? WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT APPROACHING THE CHURCH TO SEE IF WE COULD OFFER PARKING THERE AND THEN PROMOTE, LIKE, EITHER WALK OR BIKE TO EVENTS AT TAYLOR. OR YOU COULD PARK HERE AND WALK INTO THE PARK. IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF A WALK, BUT IT'S A PLEASANT WALK AT LEAST. BUT PARKING IS THE LIMITING FACTOR OUT THERE FOR ANY EVENTS THAT WE'RE EVER GOING TO HAVE, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET MORE PARKING. AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, PAY PARADISE TO PUT UP A PARKING LOT EITHER. JUST PULLED. SO THAT WAS WHAT CONCLUDED OUR EARTH DAY TO ARBOR DAY ADVENTURES. AND THAT IS ALL OF THE BUSINESS FOR TONIGHT. GREAT. THANK YOU. I
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THINK THERE'S NO OTHER BUSINESS. I'LL PULL MEMBERS FOR COMMENT. ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANT TO BRING UP OR DISCUSS? ONE QUICK QUESTION. THIS GROUP MAY HAVE THE ANSWER TO YOU, BUT AT TAYLOR FARMS THERE'S PROBABLY 8 OR 9 TREES THAT WERE PLANTED THAT DOESN'T THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEY MADE IT. IT'S KIND OF NEAR THE PLAYGROUND AREA. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHO THAT GETS DIRECTED TO. YEAH, WE OH, THOSE PINES, THE PINES, THE PINES CLUSTER. I THINK ONE PINE MAYBE IS STILL ALIVE. I THINK IT'S WATER. TOO MUCH WATER MAYBE. YEAH. THOSE ARE ALL UNDER WARRANTY. AND SO THE CONTRACTOR HAS ACTUALLY FOR THEIR FINAL PAYOUT, WE'VE DONE A COMPLETE AUDIT OF ALL THE PLANT MATERIAL. AND SO THEY WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACING THOSE. AND THEN AFTER THAT WARRANTY PERIOD IS OVER, IT WILL BE OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP THEM ALIVE. YEAH, I KNEW SOMEBODY WOULD. YEAH. THANK YOU. JUST PICTURE THAT. IT'S FUNNY YOU BROUGHT IT UP. I WAS LIKE, WE NEED RED CEDARS HERE. WE NEED SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY A WATER LOVER. LIKE, YEAH, LET'S GET IN THAT AREA. YEAH, THAT AND DEFINITELY THE NEED FOR THE RESIDENTS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WANTED SOME SCREENING. SO THAT WAS THE REASON FOR THOSE. BUT MAYBE THERE'S OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OR OTHER MATERIAL WE CAN PLANT OVER THE YEARS THERE. OKAY. GOOD QUESTION. I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP FOR THE GROUP IT'S SUMMERTIME IS COMING.I ALERTED STAFF TO THE FACT THAT I'M NOT GOING TO BE HERE JULY, THE JULY MEETING. AND SO I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO THINK ABOUT IF YOU'VE GOT SUMMER PLANS AND YOU KNOW YOU WON'T BE HEADING A MEETING IF YOU JUST LET STAFF KNOW SOONER THAN LATER SO WE CAN GET AHEAD. IF WE KNOW WE WON'T HAVE QUORUM FOR SOME REASON, OR A VICE CHAIR NEEDS TO STEP IN. SHE'S EXCITED. SHE'S EXCITED.
AND THEN SECONDLY, A SHORT MEETING IF I'M IN CHARGE, NO QUESTIONS. STAFF AND I WERE DISCUSSING THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO GET STARTED ON A REVIEW, SINCE MOST OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE YEAR OF 2025 ARE KIND OF IN THE BAG, THERE'S SOME THINGS WE STILL HAVE OUTSTANDING, SOME BIG THINGS OUTSTANDING, BUT WE WANT TO START A REVIEW OF THE 2025 EVENTS IN TERMS OF GETTING READY FOR 2026 PLANNING. SO THAT'LL HAPPEN IN THE JUNE MEETING.
WE'LL SET TIME ASIDE FOR THAT. I WOULD ASK THAT WHEN WE KIND OF DID A TAKING ITSELF ISSUE OF DID A POOR JOB, KIND OF REFLECTING ON 2024 AT THE END OF THE YEAR. SO JUST WANT TO GET AHEAD OF EVERYONE JOTTING DOWN SOME NOTES, EVENTS THAT WE'VE DONE AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THINGS EACH MEETING E-WASTE EVENTS ESPECIALLY TODAY. BUT JUST TO JOT DOWN A FEW NOTES OF WHAT YOU THINK WE COULD DO BETTER, DIFFERENT IDEAS. YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN OUT IN THE COMMUNITIES, OTHER PEOPLE'S AREAS, THINGS THEY MIGHT BE DOING JUST SO WE CAN KIND OF TALK ABOUT THAT. AND THEN JUST BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT OF NEW PEOPLE COMING ON BOARD OR ON BOARD, RATHER TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL RECAP IN THE 2020. CITY, WHAT AM I COMING
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FOR? THE ANNUAL REPORT? THANK YOU. OH, I'M SO SORRY. NO, SORRY. I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP.ANYWAY. JUST JUST TO KIND OF GET REACQUAINTED WITH WHAT WERE THE ORIGINAL INTENTS OF PUTTING THIS BOARD TOGETHER AND SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS THAT CAME UP FROM THE COMMUNITY. I, I WAS JUST GOING TO KIND OF DO IT OVER A FEW MONTHS. IT SEEMS LIKE THINGS ARE ALL STILL FAIRLY RELEVANT. AND I THINK AS WE'VE TAKEN CHUNKS OF THINGS, IT'S GOOD JUST TO GET A BUCKET OF LIKE, OH, HERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE LEFT OFF OF OUR SCOPE THAT MAYBE WE WANT TO ADD IN, OR WE'VE DONE A GREAT JOB ON THESE THINGS. HERE'S SOME THINGS WE HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCH THAT MAYBE WE WANT TO CONSIDER FOR 2026. SO I'LL GET OFF THAT SOAPBOX NOW. WELL, AND ALONG THOSE LINES, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE REVIEW WE'LL DO NEXT MONTH, OUR OUR DROP OFF OR OUR CURBSIDE COMPOST RFP WAS DUE TODAY. WE GOT FOUR. SO WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THEM YET, BUT WE'LL BRING THAT TO YOU IN JUNE. AND THEN THAT WILL, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY BE PART OF WHAT WE HAVE TO THE BIG PROJECTS WE HAVE TO COMPLETE THIS YEAR, START AND THEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH THAT NEXT YEAR AS WELL. GREAT. IF NO ONE HAS ANYTHING ELSE, I WILL MOVE TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 751. CAN I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE.
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